For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

The Mycenaean Greeks were also real people, although the legendary characters in Homer’s works are fictitious, meant to ...

It was found near the site of Mycenae, an ancient city about 70 miles west of Athens, and the center of the Mycenaean civilization, which dominated Greece from about 1600 to 1100 B.C.E. The ...

In the heart of the island of Sicily, surrounded by the natural majesty of the Anapo Valley, lies one of the most significant ...

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the type of helmet that Odysseus will use in Christopher Nolan's film about the Odyssey.

Dimitri Nakassis (Ph.D. Texas 2006) studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece. His book, Individuals and ...

Image caption, Artwork of a bull on a wall in Knossos Palace, Greece. After the Minoans came the Mycenaean civilisation. They were superb builders and traders, but they were also great soldiers.

I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the ...